Standards of conduct and trust in public life
Editorial questions rise on integrity and character from Truman’s era to modern politics. It contrasts Truman’s stance on marital fidelity with a poll showing 62 percent would still support Clinton despite alleged infidelity, while 30 percent would oppose. It laments indifference to Rep. Dan Rostenkowski’s 17 felony counts and asks when public standards will improve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David McCullough
Harry Truman
Truman
Bill Clinton
Clinton
Congress
Dan Rostenkowski
Illinois
White House
On This Day in History From June Fourth Through Time
A compact historical digest listing events on June 4 across years: Rome’s 1944 Fifth Army entry during WWII, Charles I hostage in 1647, Missouri Territory renaming in 1812, Cyprus handed to Britain in 1878, Sierra Club founding in 1892, Ford's 1896 Detroit test drive, Dunkirk evacuation ending in 1940, Midway Battle starting in 1942, Taft Hartley Act approval in 1947, Khrushchev speech excerpt from 1956, Pollard guilty plea in 1986, Reagan Ireland speech note a decade ago, Beijing crackdown five years ago, Soviet gas blast and 645 deaths, Robbins Broadway and Heidi Chronicles Tony wins, UN peacekeeping push in six Bosnian cities, Lani Guinier nomination fallout, and Clinton era civil rights context.
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U.S. Fifth Army
Rome
Charles I
Louisiana
Missouri
Turkey
Cyprus
Sierra Club
San Francisco
Henry Ford
Detroit
Dunkirk
France
House of Representatives
State Department
Nikita Khrushchev
Josef Stalin
Jonathan Jay Pollard
Navy
Washington
Israel
Dublin
Reagan
Beijing
Soviet Union
Jerome Robbins
Wendy Wasserstein
U.N. Security Council
U.N
Lani Guinier
Clinton
Justice Department
Journal-World masthead and staff roles listed
Journal-World presents the masthead with names of the Bill Snead Deputy Editor Robert Nordyke Managing Editor Caroline Trowbridge News Editor Ann Gardner Editorial Page Editor Tom Fisher Advertising Manager plus mail and postage details, postmaster address, US postal and circulation memberships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Snead
Robert Nordyke
Caroline Trowbridge
Ann Gardner
Tom Fisher
Prisons Still Doing Some Good In Reducing Crime
A Princeton Brookings report argues crime rates rose from 190 in 1960 to about 600 per 100 000 by the 1990s and that prisons saved lives by reducing violence. It notes most offenders are repeats or violent, with high parole and plea-bargaining rates. The piece disputes the idea that prisons do no good, while warning against relying on statistics alone for safety.
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Princeton
John J. Dilulio Jr
Princeton University
Brookings Institution
Dilulio
Clinton foreign policy needs steadiness and bold action
The piece argues Clinton misreads foreign affairs impact on his presidency. It cites British and U.S. observers, contrasts Reagan’s clear design with Clinton’s public agonizing, and urges a firm bottom line and decisive action, especially in Haiti, to restore credibility and public support.
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Boston
Bill Clinton
Washington
Clinton
White House
International Institute For Strategic Studies
London
United States
The
Economist
Reagan
Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev
Lebanon
Grenada
Charles William Maynes
Quarterly
Foreign Policy
Boston Globe
Haiti
U.S
Senior tax relief urged by readers in county forum
A public forum letter urges Travis County to match a senior 65 and older tax exemption increase, from 50 000 to 65 000, arguing fixed incomes and noting past local relief. Other letters criticize cemetery flood impacts at 1502 Cadet and urge drainage cleanup while citing policy on letters to the Journal World.
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Travis County
Austin
Tex
Travis County Commission
Douglas County
R.A. Hewitt
Journal-World
Cadet
Cadet Street
Elsie J. Avery
Melrose Lane
Old Home Town Facts From 1969 And 1894 Bridges
The Douglas County welfare director expects 500 to 600 people to participate in the federal food stamp program if the county’s application is approved. Kansas trap shooter Skipper Williams from Lawrence won the 1954 state trapshoot in Wichita, taking the open championship at 16 yards with a perfect score. A June 4 1894 Lawrence Journal item reported county bridge contracts awarded by county commissioners including Stull Eggert Mifflin and Sullivan bridges with prices ranging from 375 to 820 dollars and a foundation bid at 10 5 cents per cubic foot.
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Douglas County
John Derrick
Skipper Williams
Lawrence
Wichita
Lawrence Journal
Geo E. King
Des Moines
Stull
Deer Creek
Eggert
Mifflin
Rock Creek
Sullivan
J. Johnson
Watkins Community Museum
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Dolph Simons Sr
the World Company
Sixth
New Hampshire
Kaw
Kansas Counties
Kansas City
Dolph C. Simons Jr
Ralph Gage
Dolph Simons
Ili
Dan Simons
New Ventures
Donna Wiley
Dallas Dolan
William Sutcliffe
W.C. Simons
P.O
Kan
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
Runtapes
Indy Alto
CLIBS
Taniaabh
Old Home Town
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